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'k, 13 I- -. MEMO TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL FROM: CLERK -ADMINISTRATOR DATE: MAY 16, 1984 SUBJECT: TEAMSTERS LOCAL 320 (Police) CUNTRACT NEGOTIATIONS On the morning of May 11, 1984 Cy Smythe and I met with the President of Teamsters Local 320 and representatives of our Police Department to further negotiate a settlement of the 1984 Labor Contract based on the direction given by the City Council at an Executive Session on April 30, 1984. After advising the union representatives of the fact that Mr. Smythe had met with the City Council to discuss the future arbitration of this contract, I made an offer to the Union which provided for the following: 1) Wages - $2,335 per month Top Patrolman's salary 2) Insurance - $145 per month 3) Contract Language - a. Delete Article 18 (stand-by pay) from the Master Labor Agreement. b. Revise Article 21 Educational Incentive - Longevity to provide that educational incentive not be paid to any new hires effective 1-1-84. c. Revise Article 20 (injury on duty) to provide that employees receiving benefits under this Article not receive payments from the City which would cause the employee to earn more than the employee's after tax take home pay earned while working. 4) Drop all other demands/issues related to this contract. The union representatives after meeting in private and discussing the proposal indicated that they would recommend acceptance of the proposal to their local membership if the City would revise its offer regarding stand-by pay to provide that stand-by pay be given to emplcyees on a comp. time basis only. They further agreed to drop all of their other demands/issues relating to this contract. After discussing the matter privately with Mr. Smythe after the union representatives had left the room I felt that the agreement we had reached was in all likelihood economically the best we